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Roosevelt ana ambassadors of foreign nations on the debt question. It was interrupted as the President was about to be introduced by stating that tne program hau been censored.
An official of the Radio Commission said that is would be impossible to reply to all communications received because many were written anonymously or the addresses were illegible.
Commissioner Lafount, who represents the western states, said that in addition to the letters received by the Commission that he had received more than 300 communications from the states of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.,
Mr. Lafount said he had likewise received several hun¬ dred telegrams and letters from Alaska. Up there the listeners too seemed to get the impression that news broadcasts were to be done away with entirely. This, if true, they said would be more serious to them oecause in the wilds of the great North in the ordinary course of events it took from four to six weeks for news¬ papers to reach them and in some places even newspapers could not penetrate and thus without rau.io they would be deprived of news for months at a time. Mr. La-fount is acknowledging these pro¬ tests as rapidly as possible but it will doubtless be Spring, if not longer, before many of them hear from him.
It was denied that tne National Association of Broad¬ casters was opposed to the plan to end the radio-press war. "If this impression prevails" said Philip Loucks, Managing Director of the Broadcasters, it is erronious. The fact is that the matter has never officially been brought to the attention of the Ass©cirtion nor has the / ssociation been called upon to take any action on the question which is one at the present time participated in only by representatives of press and newspaper associations and representatives of the networks.
The proposal is looked upon with favor by Broadcasting which says editorially in its current issue:
"At the price of a few sponsored news flash periods, yet without condeding its right to place commentators before the mic¬ rophone and to cover big news events directly from the scene, radio has secured an agreement with the leading factors in the American new spaper field that even radio's bitterest critic, the newspaper trade periodical EDITOR & PUBLISHER, calls "mutually liberal, in¬ telligent and workable" which "should yield sound benefits to press radio and public."
"Broadcasting, by the agreement, concedes to journalism that news-gathering is merely incidental to radio's prime function of entertaining and educating, and radio secures from the press a plainly implied acceptance of the fact that sponsor-support is the proper American way of broadcast operation.
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